Mom and Jenn's Texas Vacation Part 2

More pics from the vacation! Here we are at the Alamo. There were a million people there that day so we just took some pics outside, visited the gift shop and skipped the line to get inside.

So we have been waiting for Mom and Jenn to get here to see Harry Potter! Here we are in the theater. If you can tell from the picture I was feeling excellent this day! Actually, I had a fever of about 100.8 but I couldn't miss out on Harry Potter!

Mom and Jenn are so excited to see the movie even though they cheated and went before they got here.

Mom and Jenn couldn't visit us without going to Rudy's. And of course Hermes had to join us. The food was delicious as usual!

They came to visit us at the perfect time. When they arrived we had just moved into our house and had not yet cleaned out our apartment. Here is a pic of Jenn learning to use Nick's blow gun while taking a break from the last minute cleaning of the old apartment. They had tons of fun aiming for letters on the moving boxes.

Waiting for a show to start at Sea World. Yes we went back again and again and again. We had to get good use out of the season passes they got!

And since we went back we had to feed the dolphins again. Feeding them is a total rip off but it is pretty much the only way to get up close so we spent a small fortune on fish to get some cute pics. Jenn says it was totally worth it!

Look how many penguins Jenn found in the gift shop! We hung out in the Penguin building for a while to cool down and Jenn of course had to take some pics to remember her trip!

More vacation pics to come!

Mom and Jenn's Texas Vacation

Yay! Jenn and Mom are here!! Here are some pics from the beginning of their trip.

We had pizza the first night they were here and I got to meet Hermes. He is Jenn's adventure frog that goes on all her fancy vacations and tries to appear in all of her pictures. He has been to New York, Dubai, Macau, and Vietnam this summer to name a few places. Here he is with our pizza fixins.

Of course the very first day we had to go to Sea World for Jenn to pet the dolphins! Long story short Jenn has been to Sea World a few times and has never been able to touch them. Look how excited she is!

Here are some pics of us interacting with the Beluga Whales. Aren't they adorable! Thanks Valerie!

Nick and I waiting for The Cannery Row Caper Show. Our first day at Sea World was tons of fun. We were able to see all of the main day time shows and made plans to go back the next day for the water park fun!

The Greatest Show on Earth

The circus came to town! Nick and I had never been to a circus before so we decided to get some of our friends together and see what it was all about!

Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey present "The Greatest Show on Earth"

So, our seats were a little high up (notice the back wall) but they were pretty inexpensive! (Plus I now have 20/10 vision with my new glasses so I could see great!) Here are some pics of our group while we were waiting for the start of the show-

Elephants! They had a lot more of them than I expected. And although they are not African Elephants (my favorite!) they were still cool to see. They always walked in a row holding onto the tail in front of them which I thought looked cute. One even did a nice break dance move and stood mostly on it's head! The pic we got of that is pretty blurry- sad I know.

That's all the pics I have right now but stay tuned for more once we get together and swap photos with the other couples! Check out the really cool video Nick got of the motorcycle guys. The cage fit one motorcycle on the floor of it at a time but they managed to get 7 in there to drive around. It looked really dangerous to me, but since no one died, it was fun to watch!

We Passed!

The house passed! The inspection went really really well and we are very very excited to close! Sorry for all the house posts but get used to it because there will be a few more before the end of the next month! Now our next hurtle is deciding when to lock in the interest rate. Decisions, decisions....

As for other news..... tomorrow is my Half Birthday!! Nick and I are having a few friends over to celebrate and then on Friday is Nick's Half Birthday so we are going out for lunch! The main reason we are celebrating is that we were moving on our birthdays this year and didn't really get to have any fun. In fact, my birthday was spent waking up in a motel in Roswell, NM and then driving for 10 hours and finding another motel to crash at! So we are making up for it this week!

Inspection Time

We found a house! We are anxiously awaiting the inspection at the beginning of next week so we can find out if we want to invest in it. If all goes well we will be closing on the fourteenth and moving in on the eighteenth! We are very excited that we are getting closer and closer to owning our first home. We have already been checking out refridgerators, washers, dryers, microwaves and lawn mowers ! It is fun to pick out what we like but we realized just how expensive it is to buy appliances. Good thing we are getting a good chunk of change from the government for buying a house this year! If everything goes well I will post some pics of our new house asap!

Also, We are really excited for my mom and sister to come visit. They are visiting at the perfect time because they will get to see our apartment and our house. Not to mention they will be able to help us clean, move and unpack. They are in for a real treat!

Todays Happenings

So we finally got batteries for our cameras and here are some pics from today. This morning we went down to the club house to pick up a package and this is what we found!! My grandparents sent us some Florence's chocolate "just because". Isn't that sweet! 2 lbs of chocolatey goodness!

Then for a fun snack I made a recipe from ThePioneerWoman.com where she uses Stacy's Pita Chips (my favorite snack!) and coats them with chocolate and other misc. goodies. I used milk and white chocolate for ours. They look so good, I can't wait to eat them!


While I was putting the final touches on our pita chip crunch Nick was busy trying to beat all the levels of Guitar Hero III on "Hard". As you can tell from his face, he is serious about beating this level! I love that we have two guitars so we can play together. It makes it a lot more fun.

Our fun filled day is wrapping up with a BBQ with some friends! Also, we are still waiting to hear back about our offer on a house here in San Antonio. We really hope everything goes well but if not then we will just keep looking! Wish us luck!

A few weeks have gone by...

Sorry about the lack of posts lately. Here are a few key reasons why I have not been posting:

1- I had a cold for a bit and so we just stayed home and caught up on all of our tv shows thanks to hulu, abc.com and netflix on xbox live
2- We are still house hunting, so often we spend our days going through MLS searches from the realtor or actually visiting the homes
2- Our friends (you know who you are) got us hooked on guitar hero so we have been spending a lot of time mastering the levels
3- We have discovered the new night and summer shows along with the water park at Sea World
4- Did I mention we are house hunting? Houses are expensive, so are a lot of the fun activities... guess we will stick with sea world season passes, board games and guitar hero with our friends!
5- Oh and our digital cameras don't have batteries because we keep using all the rechargeable batteries in our controllers so no pics have been taken recently!

The reasons I haven't blogged pretty much sum up our last few weeks. Except, I have been able to use my new pots and they are fabulous!!!! Oh what a difference a good set can make! Thanks again to everyone who recommended different pots and pans! Oh and we are still patiently awaiting requests to come visit us now that we have a spare bed. Just let us know so we can move all the boxes out of the room first. Hopefully the next post will be more eventful. I actually have a few ideas for adventures in the coming weeks so hopefully I will remember my camera!